Monday, April 25, 2011

Gov. Mike Beebe's approval is bipartisan and huge. U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor's numbers are tepid. Elections are about choices, however. For example: If U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin winds up in a get-even match with Pryor in 2014 (Pryor blocked the Karl Rove scheme to install hatchetman Griffin as U.S. attorney in Little Rock), his vote to end Medicare and Medicaid and protect the wealthy won't be forgotten.

Here's the open line. Also, the day's roundup of news and comment.

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The Little Rock Board of Directors voted tonight to table for eight weeks an ordinance that homeless advocates say would severely limit the ability of charities to feed homeless people in city parks. Before the ordinance was punted, Vice Mayor Kathy Webb proposed a nine-member commission to study the issue and make recommendations to the board.

Another few words from Judge Wendell Griffen growing from the controversy over the sale of Black Lives Matter T-shirts at the state black history museum — removed by the administration and restored after protests from Griffen and others stirred by a story in the Arkansas Times:

In which I fix an overlooked speaker in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's coverage of the observance of the 60th anniversary of Central High School desegregation

Diane Ravitch, a powerful voice against the billionaires trying to replace an egalitarian public education system with a fractured system of winners and losers segregated by race and income in private or privately operated schools, is giving a shoutout to Barclay Key of Little Rock for his review of Little Rock 60 years after the school crisis.